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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1227436, member: 66&quot;]I would imagine there are probably some records that could tell us a few things if we could find them.&nbsp; The first two questions are &quot;At that time when did they start producing dies for the coming years coins?&quot;, and &quot;Did they typically begin striking the upcoming years coins during the previous year and if so when did they typically begin doing so?&quot;.&nbsp; If they didn&#039;t make the next years dies or coins until December then then it is a moot point.&nbsp; If they made the dies earlier but didn&#039;t coin until December the dies may have existed but they would not have struck anything and would have waited to see what was going to happen.&nbsp; Very quickly it would have been clear that the Kennedy half was going to be approved and the dies would not have been used.&nbsp; (Remember, at this time the Mint is running flat out 24/7 trying to get ahead of the coin shortage.&nbsp; There are no down times or presses for someone to fool around and do some private coining of his own.&nbsp; A pressman who is not running his press is soon going to have a supervisor asking him why.)</p><p><br /></p><p>On the other hand if die and/or coin production typically began in November there could have been 1964 Franklins struck already.&nbsp; But in that case I would expect to find records ordering the ceasing of production and the destruction of the coins and dies.</p><p><br /></p><p>The problem with finding these records is that they may be scattered at any one of several national archives depositories around the country, or there is the chance that they may have been destroyed by Mint Director Stella Hackel.&nbsp; The second possibility may be slight because I believe she confined most of her mint records destruction to the late 19th and early 20th century records.&nbsp; (I think she may have been involved with the destruction of some early 19th century records as well.)&nbsp; I don&#039;t have experience searching through the archives or how you would go about trying to trace any such records.&nbsp; The person to ask would be Roger Burdette.&nbsp; Has he seen any such records or does he have any suggestions as to how to go about finding them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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